"My whole ambition in life is to set in motion machinery which will bring noble ideas to the door of everybody, and then let men and women settle their own fate.Let them know what our forefathers as well as other nations have thought on the most momentous questions of life. We are to put the chemicals together; the crystallization will be done by nature according to her laws. Keep the motto before you "ELEVATION OF THE MASSES WITHOUT INJURING THEIR RELIGION”
- SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Saturday, August 16, 2014

MEANS ARE WANTING IN THIS COUNTRY

There are many things to be done, but means are wanting in this country.
We have brains, but no hands. We have the doctrine of Vedanta, but we
have not the power to reduce it into practice. In our books there is the
doctrine of universal equality, but in work we make great distinctions.
It was in India that unselfish and and disinterested work of the most
exalted type was preached; but in practice we are awfully cruel, awfully
heartless - unable to think of anything besides our own mass-of-flesh
bodies....I too believe that India will awake again if anyone could love
with all his heart the people of the country - bereft of the grace of
affluence, of blasted fortune, their discretion totally lost,
downtrodden, ever - starved, quarrelsome, and envious. Then only will
India awake, when hundreds of large-hearted men and women, giving
up all desires of enjoying the luxuries of life, will long and exert
themselves to their utmost for the well - being of the millions of their
countrymen who are gradually sinking lower and lower in the vortex of
destitution and ignorance.